NASA’s Perseverance rover has achieved a major first by driving across Mars using routes planned by artificial intelligence rather than human operators. Credit: NASA. An AI just ...

The new coding model released Thursday afternoon, entitled GPT-5.3-Codex, builds on OpenAI’s GPT-5.2-Codex model and combines insights from the AI company’s GPT-5.2 model, which excels on non-coding ...

Scientific knowledge is fundamentally built on data; yet, for too long, research datasets have remained siloed, poorly documented, and inconsistently ...

For years, artificial intelligence has promised to accelerate scientific discovery. But most AI tools still sit awkwardly on the sidelines, helping with narrow tasks like summarising papers or ...

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Science is collaborative, painstaking and iterative, with progress slow and some unsung scientific heroes lost to time. But every once in a while, a key event, discovery or conceptual breakthrough has ...

A major international review has upended long-held ideas about how top performers are made. By analyzing nearly 35,000 elite achievers across science, music, chess, and sports, researchers found that ...

This coal plant in central Pennsylvania, once the largest in the state, was shuttered in 2023 after powering the region for over 50 years. Earlier this year, wrecking crews blasted the plant’s cooling ...

T he last two decades have not been kind to science studies. Already bruised and battered by the “science wars” of the 1990s, by the 2000s sociologists of science — who had long argued that science ...

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